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root ranger report

03-26-2008, 07:07 PM

got to use our root ranger today and was very impressed, had about 250 feet of 6 inch terra-cotta pipe running behind and along the side of an apartment building, access behind units to tight to get any excavating equipment, and on sides two very large trees. as you can imagine there were all kind of root intrusions some blocking as much as 3\4 of the id of the pipe, between the k1500 and the jetter we were able to remove about 98% of all root growth as well as with our camera inspection see and locate cracks at hubs and get this at one point we saw a 2 pvc line penetrating to far into the 6" we traced it to a kitchen sink line so we hand dug done about 18" to pull it back and not restrict the flow at first we thought someone used a sewer saddle to make the connection but to our amazement a hammer tap was made and they used a steel roof flashing to make the connection, just when you thought youd seen it all, anyways thumbs up on the root ranger.

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no it has a ceramic type cartridge that shoots out a very wicked rear spray, we had 10 feet of leader hose in the sewer when we kicked it on sounded like a jet engine and we got some serious spray back very impressed.

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the unit is offset so hose does not hinder at all pulls great,sorry no pictures iam not that advanced, but if you go to the ridgid products part of the website you can view a picture or this baby, its a heavy head well built, the only thing i would like to see as long as it would not reduce its power would be a forward jet, but you cant have everything.

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Cheers Utah, does the 3000 part of it mean 3000psi? thanks, bit of a thicko, still learning (off you lads, all appreciated), what type of price, or are available in/to the u.k., taxes etc, got stung once buying from the u.s.